Hargeisa, sentence 84
From Wikipedia, «Hargeisa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 was Aadan Cumar fure, who held the position from 1950 to 1959.
Who acts: first mayor, Aadan fure · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: Aadan fure, position, 1950
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hargeisa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first mayor, Aadan fure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mayor | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 mayor | amod |
| 3 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fure | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hargeisa | case |
| 5 | Hargeisa | Hargeisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mayor | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1960 | case |
| 7 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 mayor | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fure | cop |
| 9 | Aadan | Aadan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fure | compound |
| 10 | Cumar | Cumar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Aadan | flat |
| 11 | fure | fure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fure | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 position | det |
| 16 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 1950 | case |
| 18 | 1950 | 1950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 1959 | case |
| 20 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1950 | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first mayor of Hargeisa in 1960 | Aadan fure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Aadan fure | the position | 1950 to 1959 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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